Usually means: People falling rapidly in numbers.
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  1. drop like flies: Merriam-Webster
  2. drop like flies: Vocabulary.com
  3. drop like flies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. drop like flies: Wiktionary
  5. drop like flies: Dictionary.com
  6. drop like flies: FreeDictionary.org
  7. drop like flies: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. drop like flies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. drop like flies: Idioms

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verb:  (simile, of members of a group, especially soldiers) To die en masse, one after the other.

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